For many years, Eadgifu had been involved in a
dispute with a certain Goda and his sons, and that dispute is
decribed in a charter of 961 or not long before, which shows that
Eadgifu was a daughter of the ealdorman Sigehelm who perished in
the Battle of Holme in 902×4 ["þa gelamp emb þa tid
þæt man beonn ealle Cantware to wigge . to Holme . þa nold
Sigelm hire fæder to wigge faron mid nanes mannes scette
unagifnum . & agef þa Godan .XXX. punda . & becwaeþ
Eadgife his dehter land & bóc sealde. Þa he on wigge
afeallen wæs þa æt soc Goda þæs feos ægiftes . & þæs
landes wyrnde . oð þæs on syxtan geare."
(Translation: "Then about that time it happened that all
the Kentish men were summoned to war at Holme. Then Sigelm would
not go to war with any man's money unpaid, and then paid Goda the
30 pounds, and bequeathed the land and gave the charter to his
daughter Eadgifu. When he had fallen in the war, Goda denied the
payment of the money, and refused the land, until the sixth year
after.") ibid., 3: 284-5 (#1064), also in Thorpe
(1865), 201-4, with English translation]. In a charter dated 961,
Eadgifu donated these lands and others to Christ Church,
Canterbury ["[A]nno dominice incarnationis .DCCCCLXI.
Ego Edgyua regina & mater . Eadmundi . & Eadredi . regum
. pro salute anime . mee . concedo ecclesie Christi in Dorobernia
. monachis ibidem Deo servientibus has terras . Meapeham .
Culinges . Leanham . Pettham . Fernlege . Munccetun . Ealdintun
... patrem meum Sigelmum ..." Cart. Sax. 3: 285-7
(#1065), with a description in Latin of the dispute recorded in
#1064]. See also the page of Sigehelm.